Chapter 231: Ji Chang's Temptation
With Taishi Wenzhong leading an army of 200,000 to Beihai, the Chaoge, which was originally panicked because of the huge rebellion of Yuan Futong and the princes of the Seventy-two Roads in Beihai, has now gradually calmed down. The reason is very simple, the old lady Wen Zhong personally led an army of 200,000 to the battle, although Beihai Yuan Futong was powerful before, but no one would doubt the strength of the old lady Wen Zhong. Everyone thinks that as long as the old lady goes out in person, a rebel like Yuan Futong in Beihai will definitely be able to be easily pacified. Therefore, after Wen Taishi set out on the expedition, the whole song was a scene of singing and dancing.
As for Zishou, in fact, in addition to the superficial impact of the Yuan Futong Rebellion in Beihai, it also brought a little other trouble to Zishou.
Originally, after Zishou ascended the throne, he wanted to find out his intentions to Su Daji, Hou Suhu of Jizhou, as soon as possible, but at that time, Emperor Yi was newly mourned, and it was inconvenient for him to mention this matter. Later, a few months later, when Zishou was about to find an opportunity to mention this matter to Hou Suhu of Jizhou again, he suddenly came out of the Beihai Yuan Futong matter, and Zishou could only put down this matter first and focus on pacifying Beihai. Therefore, after coming and going, this matter was delayed like this, that is to say, to this day, Jizhou Hou Suhu does not know that His Majesty is actually interested in his daughter today.
And just when Wen Taishi led the army to Beihai, it was indeed as Zishou and Wen Zhong, Bi Gan, and Shang Rong discussed before, with the rebellion of Yuan Futong in Beihai, many of the princes of the Quartet were a little ready to move.
The first one who was a little excited was Xibo Hou Jichang.
Xibo Hou Jichang is the leader of the Zhou tribe. In that year, in the second year of Emperor Yi's succession, the rebellion of the Zhou tribe was a test for Ji Chang's great merchants, who were already crumbling at that time. However, Ji Chang did not expect that Di Yi was actually such a talented and strategic person, who was obviously close to the declining Dashang, and in the hands of Di Yi, he fought a hundred battles in the south, deterred the Quartet, and once again bloomed with vitality. Even with the strength of the Zhou tribe at that time, Ji Chang was still defeated by Di Yi.
However, fortunately, although the Zhou tribe was defeated at that time, the Great Shang actually did not have enough strength to concentrate on destroying the Zhou tribe because they wanted to suppress the Quartet, so although Di Yi led the Great Shang to defeat the Zhou, he chose to marry his sister to Ji Chang and marry the Zhou tribe.
And after Ji Chang led the Zhou tribe and Di Yi to lose the battle, he also understood that the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, not to mention that the big business also ushered in Di Yi such a wise king, so he knew that the time to overthrow the big business and replace it had not yet come, so Ji Chang also pushed the boat down the river and agreed to Di Yi's marriage.
Later, after Emperor Yi pacified the Quartet, he divided eight hundred princes, although the position of Dong Bohou, the chief of the princes in the world, was given to his solid ally Jiang Huan Chu, but this second only to the position of Dong Bohou was given to Ji Chang in order to appease the Zhou tribe.
During the reign of Emperor Yi, Xibo Hou Jichang, who knew that he had no chance of winning under the control of Emperor Yi, had been honestly shrinking in the west, silently developing the national strength of the Xiqi State where the Zhou tribe was located. During this period, although Di Yi wanted to weaken the strength of the Zhou tribe many times, Ji Chang's turtle tactics were used, and even Di Yi did not find any excuse to suppress the Zhou tribe.
Ji Chang was huddled in Xiqi, silently developing his national strength, and while he was also waiting, waiting for an opportunity for the Zhou tribe to replace the big merchants. He boiled and boiled, and he survived for more than 20 years, and finally survived Di Yi.
When the news of Di Yi's death reached Xiqi, Ji Chang, who was already an old man, almost jumped off his chair excitedly.
However, it was only a moment of excitement that Ji Chang calmed down again.
He vaguely remembered that in the second year after Di Yi succeeded to the throne, when he led the increasingly powerful Zhou tribe to overthrow the Shang Dynasty and replace it, how the newly enthroned generation of male lords gave him a painful lesson - yes, although the Great Shang did not take the Zhou tribe in the end, and chose to marry to appease the Zhou tribe, but only Ji Chang knew that the Zhou tribe, if there was no battle at the beginning, then the current Xiqi country would definitely be several times stronger than the current situation! In that battle, although it seemed that the Zhou tribe had suffered little loss on the surface, the talents of the younger generation of the Zhou tribe at that time could be said to have been almost slaughtered by Di Yi on the battlefield.
Therefore, although Di Yi has passed away now, Ji Chang looked at the information at hand about the new king of Dashang who inherited the throne of Di Yi, and hesitated again.
Judging from the available information, the newly succeeded Shang King Di Xin is also a rare male lord.
Ji Chang didn't know if his Zhou tribe took advantage of this opportunity of the alternation of the throne of the Great Shang to rebel again, would the newly enthroned Great Shang Emperor lead the army of the Shang Dynasty to defeat Xiqi like the original Emperor Yi.
Maybe it's because people are old and have lost the enterprising energy of their youth. Ji Chang didn't dare to bet. Faced with the opportunity of the replacement of the throne of Dashang, Ji Chang chose to wait and see. He wants to see what happened to the big merchants after this emperor ascended the throne.
Maybe it's really Tianzhu Xiqi.
Just after Ji Chang chose to wait and see because of hesitation, not long after, a piece of news that made Ji Chang's heart flutter came again.
Yuan Futong of Beihai united the princes of the Seventy-two Routes to launch a rebellion.
Hearing this news, Ji Chang, who had never forgotten his original dream for more than 20 years, immediately realized that this was an opportunity, an excellent opportunity to test the reality of big businessmen. If it is used well, not only can it be tested to find out what the reality of the current Dashang is after Di Yi's death, but no matter what the result is, it will not implicate Xiqi. Therefore, after learning that Dashang reacted quickly, and the old lady Wen Zhongqin led an army of 200,000 to conquer Beihai, Ji Chang knew that he had to make a move. Because Ji Chang knows very well that Yuan Futong in Beihai is definitely not Wen Zhong's opponent, if he has not responded before Yuan Futong is pacified by Wen Zhong, then this opportunity to test the reality of Dashang will pass in vain.
As the saying goes, the one who knows you best is always your opponent, and Ji Chang, who has never forgotten to let the Zhou tribe replace the big businessman for more than 20 years, still knows Wen Zhong, the minister of the big business, very well.
When Wen Zhong was a child, he had a great opportunity to worship the Holy Mother of Jin Ling, a disciple of the Holy Mother of the Qing Dynasty, as a teacher, and cultivated under the Holy Mother of Jin Ling for 50 years, and finally learned to go down the mountain to become an official in the court, assisting the great merchants. When Emperor Yi was in power, Wen Zhong was his right-hand man. Wen Zhong is not only strong in mana, but also excellent in the art of war. When Emperor Yi was fighting the world, Wen Zhong led a large army to fight everywhere, and he was devastated everywhere he went, and he never encountered a single defeat. It can be said that at that time, Di Yi was able to turn the tide and help the building to collapse, and Wen Zhong definitely made great contributions.
It is precisely because he knows Wen Zhong very well that Ji Chang knows very well that the rebellion of Yuan Futong in Beihai, although it is known as the United Seventy-two Road Princes, is huge, but once Wen Zhong personally goes out, he can definitely be captured. Therefore, if you want to test the reality of big business, it is not enough to just wait and see what happens. Therefore, after hesitating again and again, Ji Chang decided to activate a dark chess that he, or the Zhou tribe, had been hiding for a long time.
That dark chess piece is Jizhou Hou Suhu.
Hou Suhu of Jizhou was also one of the eight hundred princes of the Great Shang Emperor B.
After Emperor Yi succeeded to the throne, he led the army to conquer everywhere, and finally quelled the rebellion of the Quartet, and divided the Quartet with the power of great victory, and divided the princes into 800 towns. However, the same princes, naturally there are strong and weak, divided lands, and rich and poor. Not to mention anything else, when the world was in turmoil, the princes who stood on the side of Emperor Yi, such as Dongbohou Jiang Huanchu, would naturally take advantage of it when it was divided, and those princes who were originally enemies of Emperor Yi, such as Xibohou Jichang, would inevitably be suppressed when they were divided.
And Jizhou Hou Suhu, when Emperor Yi divided the world, was not only an extremely powerful prince, but also a prince who stood in Emperor B's camp. Therefore, Su Hu is not only an extremely powerful tribe of Yousu, but also a very rich Jizhou by Emperor Yi. Therefore, to this day, the Hou Su Hu of Jizhou, even if he is looking at the princes of the eight hundred towns in the world, even the princes of the four directions, including Jiang Huan Chu in the east, Ji Chang in the west, Chongyu in the south, and Chonghou Hu in the north, Su Hu, the Marquis of Jizhou, is also a powerful prince in the ranks. Otherwise, it would not have been Su Hu's turn to come to the court to pay homage to Emperor Yi - there are eight hundred towns of princes in the world, and those who can be qualified to come to the court to pay homage to Emperor B, in addition to the princes of the Quartet, there are only a few people such as Hou Su Hu of Jizhou. However, no one has ever known that Hou Suhu of Jizhou, from the very beginning, was Ji Chang, or the shadow son of the Zhou tribe.
At that time, Emperor Yi had recently succeeded to the throne, and the Great Shang rebellion was rampant and crumbling. Di Yi resolutely led the army to sweep through the Quartet and quell the rebellion in the Quartet by thunderous means, and at that time, the increasingly powerful Zhou tribe took advantage of the situation under the leadership of Ji Chang and wanted to replace the merchants. At that time, the Great Shang and the Zhou tribe confronted each other, and the princes of the world stood in line.
Dongbohou Jiang Huanchu chose to stand on the side of Dashang and Diyi at that time, and the same was true for Hou Suhu of Jizhou.
However, although Su Hu was on the side of the big merchants at that time, he was actually the shadow son of the Zhou tribe. The reason why I want to support Di Yi is to be able to fight back at a critical moment and catch Di Yi off guard. It's just that neither Xibo Hou Jichang nor Jizhou Hou Suhu didn't expect at that time that before Su Hu could find a chance to fight back, Xiqi was defeated under the joint efforts of Di Yi and Jiang Huan Chu.
So, in that case, Ji Chang, who knew that it would be difficult to reverse the situation even if he used the secret son of Jizhou Hou Suhu, simply didn't do anything and directly let Su Hu continue to disguise, while the Zhou tribe directly swallowed the bitter fruit of defeat.
And this chess piece has been hidden for more than 20 years.
Today, in the face of the death of Emperor Yi, Beihai Yuan Futong united the 72 princes to rebel, Wen Taishi personally led a large army to conquer such a complex chaos in Beihai, in order to test the depth of today's big business, Ji Chang decided to start the secret chess of Jizhou Hou Suhu.
Although he is already old, Ji Chang is still very decisive once he makes a decision. Therefore, on the night when he got the news of Wen Taishi's personal expedition to Beihai, a person carried a secret letter written by Ji Chang himself, left Xiqi overnight, and rushed to Jizhou.
A few days later, after retreating, Hou Suhu of Jizhou solemnly received a visitor in a hidden side hall.
Xiqi country doctor, scattered Yisheng.
As Ji Chang's shadow son who was buried many years ago, Su Hu is naturally no stranger to San Yisheng - in fact, San Yisheng is Ji Chang's absolute confidant. Not to mention anything else, let's just say that Jizhou Hou Su Hu is Xiqi's secret son This is enough to shock the world, in addition to Su Hu himself and Ji Chang, San Yisheng is also one of the few people who know, so you can see the status of San Yisheng.
Therefore, knowing that it was San Yisheng who was visiting, although he was one of the most powerful princes of Dashang, Su Hu did not have the slightest scruple.
After welcoming San Yisheng into the side hall, Su Huping retreated, poured a cup of tea for San Yisheng with his own hands, and asked, "Why did Mr. come?"
As a literati, San Yisheng rushed all the way from Xiqi to Jizhou non-stop after getting Ji Chang's instructions, and he was naturally tired. Therefore, after entering the side hall, he sat on the chair without any grace.
After taking a few sips of gasp, San Yisheng took the tea handed by Su Hu and took a big sip of it, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
And seeing San Yisheng like this, Su Hu was even more nervous: "When did it happen, so that Mr. was in such a hurry to come, and he didn't have time to rest for a moment along the way?
Taking a deep breath, San Yisheng waved his hand to show that he was okay: "Jizhou Hou is too worried." Nothing to do under it. It's just that Master Hou has important matters that need to be communicated to the Hou of Jizhou, and this matter is very important, and he can't stand the mouth of others, so I went on this trip. ”
Hearing that San Yisheng was fine, Su Hu breathed a sigh of relief, but then he was a little curious: "What is the matter, actually bothering Mr. Lao to personally communicate?"
After pondering for a moment, San Yisheng stopped detouring, and said in a low voice directly: "Marquis of Jizhou, Beihai Yuan Futong united the princes of the 72nd Route to rebel, and Wen Taishi personally led 200,000 troops to Beihai to quell the rebellion, have you heard the news?"
Hearing this, a flash of horror flashed in Su Hu's eyes: "Sir, Mo Fei Xibo wants to take advantage of this opportunity to raise troops, so let Mr. come and tell me to prepare for him early?"
Hearing Su Hu say this, San Yisheng shook his head: "Although it's not like this, it's not far off." After Hou Ye learned about this, he felt that this was a good opportunity to test the reality of the big business, but Hou Ye felt that a mere Beihai Yuan Futong, even if he united the princes of the seventy-two roads, it was far from enough to force out the bottom line of the big business, so Hou Ye hoped that the Hou of Jizhou would be able to push it. ”